Prepress Workflow:

If there is a single aspect for you to know about our prepress department, it is simply this: J.S. McCarthy Printers has an exceptional prepress department that always incorporates the best of conventional time-proven and leading edge technologies.

The J.S. McCarthy prepress workflow utilizes the latest Prinergy prepress system from Kodak. In Prinergy, all source files are converted and normalized into PDF digital masters for use in subsequent phases of production. As the Prinergy system is based on Adobe PDF Print Engine 2.0 technology, you can be assured that JSM can process all of the latest capabilities of the common desktop design applications.

Whether it is the experience of our staff (28 employees with a total of over 550 years of printing experience) or our never ending investments in the latest technologies (RemoteProof website, Stacatto screening and color managed inkjet proofing) we spare no expense or effort to ensure the absolute best reproduction possible for your printing project. Period. It's a philosophy that may frustrate our CFO, but it makes for many satisfied and loyal customers.

The foundation of a strong prepress workflow starts with clean source files and properly prepared PDFs. For more information on preflighting your files in various software programs check here.
Software and Preflight

This page contains all the information needed to create clean, press-ready PDF files that will process correctly in our workflow.
PDF Creation